5 User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience45.4% of reviews
Neutral10.1% of reviews
Negative experience44.5% of reviews

~ Based on 1,602 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is 5 Safe?

5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for 5 is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 87,642 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

91.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 87,642 App Store ratings for 5.

Is 5 Legit?

5-0 Radio Pro Police Scanner appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for 5 is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Feeds offline frequently

Why are all the feeds offline frequently and we are paying for this?

Ads of pro app now? Read developer response.

I did with the developer said to do and it worked. I still wish I could listen to the actual police scanner feeds of New Orleans in Portland, Oregon. Rather than fire and EMT. Beside that it’s been my most used app. Gotta give it five stars.

Not working in my area

5–0 radio, works great when it comes to other police agencies in the country in the world, but not where I live. For some reason it no longer picks up reception.

Good app for keeping you up to date on your area

I use this all the time, and the only bad thing is the ads.

Ads

Ads keep popping up.

Necessary analog communication

Keep improving this please it is important especially now!!

Ads

Ads are annoying when your trying to quickly listen to what’s going on

Unsavory changes

When I purchased this app it was for commercial free service. A one time paid service. Several years later, they started adding a monthly fee for no commercials. I feel whoever already had the app should’ve been grandfathered in. also, more and more it’s not connecting with the Wi-Fi and broadcasting the areas that I’ve been listening to for about a decade
Currently, I will still keep it without paying any ridiculous fees. As soon as I find something better I’m out of here
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Annoying

I cancelled the app during the trial period actually immediately after I downloaded it I cancelled to ensure I wasn’t charged the yearly fee. On my phone it says it was cancelled but today your app tried to charge me 39.99 my card declined but I’m afraid it will try again and go through and there is no way for me to stop it because it already says CANCELLED SINCE AUGUST 15th
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Quality

I enjoy listening to local traffic. Voice quality is excellent and frequencies are busy.

Solo que necesito espacio

Lo único razón que desinstalo es que no tengo espacio

0 stars if I could

Don’t sign up for this app it’s garbage. It doesn’t work well and two when you cancel the account or when you cancel you’re still billed a $43 I’m fighting with Apple right now to try and get my money back from this developer if I could give zero I would, but you can’t do the rating zero.

Pro version has way too many ads

Enjoyed the app in the beginning, decided to pay for the full version. I had like two months of no ads, then when my phone updated, it brought the ads back, a minute and a half, two minutes long, un-skippable, un,-minimizable, unbearable, do not waste your money on the full version. It is a bait and switch.
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Great app!

Reliable. Has the majority of the frequencies I need. I’ve used it for years and I can’t remember a single bug. Highly recommend!

Always works

For my area it has the right stations

Suggestions

Don’t have full page ads and audible ads. They interfere with the app while listening to emergency calls.

Should be a Gaming App not Scanner

Horrible a game pops up immediately when I am trying to listen for a real emergency in our rural community this app should be removed

Scanner

It could be a lot better if highway patrol on here to

It’s better now

Better now that I was able to get rid of the ads since I paid for a lifetime purchase without any ads ever. Glad I read some other reviews with devs response so I could promptly change my negative. Still, not getting a full 5 star because of this.

Disappointed

As more departments go digital/encrypted, many of the feeds I actually listened to are gone, leaving mostly tertiary channels with far less action. Then there’s the app itself: every time I open it, it launches into some game I don’t want, forcing me to close and restart just to use the scanner.
Less useful feeds, annoying features, and a worse user experience. I paid for Pro expecting a better scanner, not a game launcher. Very disappointing.
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